Williams County Vietnam War Memorial

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., honors U.S. service members who fought in the Vietnam War, those who died in service in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, and those who were missing in action, and its complex includes the Vietnam Women's Memorial, the Three Soldiers statue, and the Wall. The Vietnam Women's Memorial is dedicated to the women of the United States who served in the war, most of whom were nurses, and depicts three uniformed women with a wounded soldier, with the women identified as Hope, Faith, and Charity; it was designed by Glenna Goodacre and dedicated on November 11, 1993. The Three Soldiers, designed by Frederick Hart and unveiled on Veterans Day, 1984, portrays three young U.S. fighting men equipped as Vietnam War servicemen and was intended to add a more traditional sculptural element to the memorial. Hart said the figures stand vigil before a sea of sacrifice, and the sculpture was positioned so the soldiers appear to look over the names of their fallen comrades. The Wall, designed by Maya Lin, is the best-known part of the memorial; completed in 1982 in Constitution Gardens near the National Mall, it consists of two black gabbro walls sunk into the ground and inscribed with the names of the dead and missing in chronological order so that visitors can walk beside them, see their own reflections with the engraved names, and experience what was described as a wound that is closed and healing.

Montpelier, Ohio · United States